Kidney back transport point. Lingshu‧Weiqi: "foot shaoyin...marked on Beishu and sublingual veins".

[Origin]

Yu, Tongshu. The acupoint corresponds to the kidney and is the back transport point of the kidney.

[Location]

Shenshu, Dachangshu, Xiaochangshu, Pangguangshuacupoint cross section
(quoted from "Yan Zhenguo acupoint anatomy")

Shenshu acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

1.5 inches below the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra (Mingmen (GV4)) , approximately level with the lower end of the rib arch.

• Lingshu‧Beishu: "Between the fourteen jiao (vertebrae), they are all separated by three inches from each other by the spine."
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing BOOK>: "One and a half inches below the fourteenth vertebra";
• Qianjin Yaofang‧: "On both sides of the navel."

[Anatomy]

• Muscles: between the lumbar membrane, longissimus and iliocostalis.
• Nerve: The medial branch of the posterior branch of the first lumbar nerve, and the deep layer is the lateral branch of the posterior branch and the lumbar plexus.
• Vessel: The medial branch of the dorsal branch of the second lumbar artery and vein.

[Manipulation]

Perpendicular insertion or oblique insertion 1 to 2 inches downward or to the side of the spine. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 7 weeks, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

Benefit kidney qi, sharpen the waist and spine, and improve the ears and eyes.

• Classical: consumptive disease: Thin, yellowish-black face, lumpago, tinnitus, deafness, seminal emission, spontaneous seminal emission, tightness of ankles and knees, edema, difficulty in urination, bloody urine, heavy head and body heat, cold feet Such as ice, menstrual irregularities, red leucorrhea, pain of vulva, diarrhea, consumptive thirst, chronic cough disease, foot cramps, vomiting, heart pain, such as hanging, flank pain, acute pain in the lower abdomen, red face, hot urination Turbid red, enuresis, blind eyes, paralysis of limbs, cold sperm and childlessness.
• Modern: nephritis, renal colic, proteinuria, nephroptosis, anemia, sequelae of polio, hypertension, diabetes, urinary tract infection.

[Recipe]

• kidney deficiency deafness: Tinghui (GB2), Shenshu (BL23).
• Impotence: Qihai (CV6), Shenshu (BL23).
• Chest and diaphragm stay static blood: Juliao (ST3), Shenshu (BL23).
• Kidney failure and waist deficiency and frequent urination: Mingmen (GV4), Shenshu (BL23).
• consumptive disease Edema: Shenshu (BL23), Taichong (LR3).
• seminal emission white turbidity: Guanyuan (CV4), Shenshu (BL23), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
• Nephritis: Zhongji (CV3), Zigong (EX-CA1), Shenshu (BL23), Feiyang (BL58) , Sanyinjiao (SP6), Fuliu (KI7).
• Urinary tract infection: Zhongji (CV3), Shenshu (BL23), Pangguangshu (BL28), Sanyinjiao (SP6) .
• Diabetes: Shenshu (BL23), Guanyuan (CV4), Zusanli (ST36).